FTB electrics check question

timmyt

DVardysShadow wrote: »

.... But you are OK with works done by people allowed by the legislation to do them. And you don't stop to think that works done by people who are allowed by legislation may not be sound?

Somehow, I think that people being killed by faulty electrics correlates better with whether the works are sound than with whether the person doing the works was allowed by legislation. But then you are a conveyancing solicitor and I am not. So I would sleep easy once I knew the works were sound and I could not care less about proving who did them. Presumably, you sleep easy when you have proved that your clients are not buying houses with works done by people who are not allowed.

Funny old world.

You are chnaging the point but yes, no one disagrees that electrics should be sound, but again, quite simply lawyers would make sure that whoever did the 2009 works was a competent person under the recent regulations for electrical alterations. Just like alterations that need local authority consents lawyers will be making sure they have them.

All lawyers will be looking for that confirmation . Your lawyer too - if you don't go cheap and use a factory firm.

You are otherwise free, as buyers have been since houses were invented, to commission your own eletrical report (and survey for alteration standards), and you might be foolish not to, as houses are sold with 'buyer beware' in this country. The point is that lawyers have the added task of checking compliance with the law - you pay us to do that.

VIGILANT22

timmyt wrote: »

i dont care about spelling when I am giving free advice on a free website, so long as what I say is right.

do you have anything to add to help OP?

I think you should be more careful about using the word "advice"...this site is not regulated and even although you purport to be a property solicitor..you are not giving advice (free or not, doesn't change the meaning)....you are giving information/opinion....

jaywhoopee

I got an electrician friend and a plumber mate of his to look around this house before I bought it, which turned up the fact that the wiring was old and a patchwork of bodges and the boiler was shot (and incorrectly installed in the first place).

It was the best money I ever spent, as I was able to agree an allowance with the seller, splitting the quote for remedial work 50/50 (and saving over £2500).

Havemysay

Yes a Periodic Inspection Report is the way to go, carried out by a registered electrician. The Niceic recommends that one is done on change of occupancy anyway. If any faults are found the report will grade them for you from 1 (dangerous faults that need immediate attention) down to 4 (doesn't meet current regs but safe).

Owain_Moneysaver

Kavajo wrote: »

On mine there was an electric shower installed without an rcd,

Which was permissible under 16th Edition and earlier Regs provided that requirements for touch voltage under fault conditions and disconnection by fuse or MCB were met.

Kavajo wrote: »

and a mistake on the bathroom light circuit where it had joined the upstairs sockets and downstairs lights. This meant the circuits were still live unless both fuses were removed so very dangerous.

Now that is Really Rather Poor Workmanship.

Owain_Moneysaver

jaywhoopee wrote: »

I got an electrician friend and a plumber mate of his to look around this house before I bought it, which turned up the fact that the wiring was old and a patchwork of bodges and the boiler was shot (and incorrectly installed in the first place).

It was the best money I ever spent, as I was able to agree an allowance with the seller, splitting the quote for remedial work 50/50 (and saving over £2500).

And probably more useful than anything most surveyors would tell you.